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I am so tired of the fucking usa, wish they would just implode, fuck off, and leave everyone alone.
I live there and basically... Yeah. I mean, it feels like we are on a direct course for implosion.
Sorry the rest of you have to deal with our bullshit.
It would be cool if you and your fellow citizens (millions of you, not just the handful who have been shouting into the wind so far) got together and did something to prevent that implosion.
Yeah I mean totally, all of that. If you got any idea how to rally a bunch of spineless dumbasses who let every chance to do something slip through their fingers I'm all ears. The politicians opposing Trump seem to wanna sit on their hands until it all magically blows over on its own, and the average citizen is too busy watching reality tv to get off their butts and do anything remotely uncomfortable. I'm living the prophecy of idiocracy and its driving me insane
I don't understand Americans and how to motivate them.
I would hope an actual American would have a better idea about that than this Canadian dude...
I have to apologize. Venting is one thing, but I don't think I really have an excuse for that, so I'm going to leave it there and maybe I'll learn something. Having said that, the position this has put me in has been a nightmare to say the least. And I know I'm not the only one. The shit I've had to do in the last month alone to prepare for possible shtf is insane, and it's far from over. If it was just me alone, I'd be ok, but it's not. Just fuck. Sorry.
As another US person, I don't think you have anything for which you should apologize. Everyone, everywhere, should be angry about what the US is doing - internally and externally. I would never think it's wrong to say "I wish Nazi Germany had imploded before it became WWII and mass murder"; Nazi US is no different.
It's terrifying to be here but I don't think anyone should be quiet about how awful this is.
Hugs to you, friend. I hope we all come out of this okay.
No worries, I get it. This shit is terrible, and while its not all Americans, its embarrassing how many of us are for the craziness. I always knew I was surrounded by dumbasses but holy shit, its way worse than I ever expected.
It should also be embarrassing how few of you are actively fighting back against the collapse of your own country.
Those few hundred person protests? They should be millions. And they should be constant.
That's the only way you'll reclaim your country from the fascists who are taking it over and destroying ~250 years of progress.
I feel like i need to print T-shirts or make an alias username to say, "I'm sorry we suck."
Maybe the measles will take em down
As a citizen of fucking USA, I keep expecting to wake up one morning with bombs being dropped on us. And frankly, I fully welcome the bombs. Whatever keeps my family from reliving concentration camps.
I've often wondered how I would have acted during the Nazi invasion of Poland. Apparently, the answer is "become paralyzed with fear and thank my luck every day that they didn't come for me."
I've spent so much of my life trying to honor my family who died in the Holocaust by teaching kids about their lives and explaining how complacency will allow it to happen again. Yet here I am, metaphorically hiding under a blanket telling myself "but if the monster comes to get me, you know I'll get them then!"
I hate living through all this and grown to hate myself over the snivelling inactive role I play.
I keep waiting for mass resistance to kick off so I can join in, but it never does.
Be the change you want to see.
Organize.
That's the thing. There are probably a lot of people thinking the exact same thing, you just haven't found each other.